Please click here for programme and registration information Participants have been encouraged to think of borders and boundaries not only in geographical terms, but also as a more general category... Read more

Laila Parsons is a historian specializing in the modern Middle East. She received her D.Phil. from Oxford in 1996, and taught at Harvard and Yale before moving in 2004 to McGill University, where she... Read more

OPEN IN TRINITY TERM MONDAY-FRIDAY 9am - 5pm Images from the Syrian Revolution by Maciej Moskwa Syria is plunged in war. A few months before the violence became prohibitively dangerous inside the... Read more

We are delighted to welcome Prof Nic Cheeseman, now of the University of Birmingham, to reflect on his outstanding contribution to the study of African politics at Oxford's African Studies Centre and... Read more

This seminar will consider the case of Chin refugees from Myanmar in the north-east Indian State of Mizoram, drawing on Migdal’s (2004) concepts of ‘virtual checkpoints’ and ‘mental maps’ to analyse... Read more

The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more

Alice Wilso n is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests span political and economic anthropology, with a particular interest in radical experiences... Read more

Lucy O’Sullivan is a third year DPhil Candidate in Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo: Post-revolutionary Body... Read more

Abstract According to the «echo chamber» hypothesis, political networks on the internet are fragmented and limiting. Online political communication basically preaches to the converted with little or... Read more

Gandhi’s lauded text Hind Swaraj is born of and located within the 19th century crisis of liberal democracy and its resolutions of an intimate animosity towards the masses. Gandhi shares considerable... Read more

Elena Zhirukhina has been a PhD candidate and Marie Curie Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor Rick Fawn, is entitled 'The state... Read more

Abstract With buoyant financial markets and a long-awaited cyclical recovery in manufacturing and trade underway, global output growth is projected to rise from 3.1 percent in 2016 to 3.5 percent in... Read more